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Use Case

🐱 Catch Catfish Before They Catch You

Identify fake profiles and stolen identities across social media, dating apps, and messaging platforms.

Catfishing costs victims billions of dollars annually and causes lasting emotional damage. Whether someone contacted you on Instagram, matched with you on Tinder, or messaged you on WhatsApp, Sherly helps you verify their identity in seconds. Upload their photo and our AI searches millions of public web pages to find where that face actually appears online — revealing stolen photos, fake identities, and known scammers.

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How Sherly Helps with Catfish Detection

AI-powered face matching across the public web
Detect photos stolen from other social profiles
Cross-reference faces across dating platforms
Similarity scores show match confidence
Source links to verify original photo locations

How It Works

1

Upload a Photo

Snap a photo, paste a screenshot, or pick from your camera roll.

2

AI Processes on Device

Apple Vision detects and crops the face — nothing leaves your phone yet.

3

Search the Web

The cropped face is searched across millions of public web pages.

4

Get Results

See matches with similarity scores and direct source links in under 60 seconds.

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No account needed. Privacy-first. Results in seconds.

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